Hi!
michael jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> i want to get my mail from my isp, pop3, scan it
> and sort according to sender, and forward
> important stuff to my cell phone. my isp is
> dial-up, so i want to set up a chron job to dial
> in, right? is there a way to know wether the
> connection is made, what if the line is busy??
> what would be the best way to scan the mail for
> sender info?
I can't help you to set up a cron job. Perhaps
anybody can. But I can tell you how to sort
incoming messages.
You need your computer to be on, dial-up to your
ISP from time to time, and fetch the messages from
the server.
You can run fetchmail as a daemon, even if you are
not the root. But perhaps you prefer to put a
fetchmail command in the script you will use to
dial-up.
Once the messages are fetched from the server, you
need procmail to sort the messages and forward the
messages you want. I presume that your cell phone
has an email address, of course.
Put the following in your ~/.procmailrc :
:0 fw
* ^From.*[EMAIL PROTECTED]
{
:0 c
! your-phone-number@your-phone�com.com
}
It will forward the messages from
[EMAIL PROTECTED] to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] and still keeps
a copy in your Linux box.
Hope this helps. :-)
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